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26 Apr 05:50am

Filed under: Afl, Andrew Demetriou, Gary Ablett, Gold Coast Suns, Port Adelaide, Satire, Sport

Three weeks ago, in a bitter and premature rant, The Punch ran a story entitled The Suns’ Humiliation is Demetriou’s Humiliation.

Hooray, we're better than Port Adelaide. Now to beat a real team…

The basic premise of the piece was that this hapless bunch of newbies, whose jumpers look like hot dog franks dipped in mustard, would not win a game until Christmas. As in, Christmas 2017. Not only were they an embarrassment to themselves, we argued, but a dagger in the heart of AFL supremo Andrew Demetriou’s expansionist dreams.

How very short-sighted of us. In light of the Suns’ remarkable win over Port Adelaide on the weekend, it is time to man up and admit we were wrong. To be even more accurate, I was wrong. About the Gold Coast. But not about expansion

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Elmo says:

09:43pm | 19/04/12

I don’t see how Optus have a leg to stand on. They claim it’s no different than rrnoedicg to a DVR in your home, but in reality it is completely different. When you record to your DVR at home you aren’t re-distributing your content to thousands of other people. That’s… Read more »
Dan says:

09:12am | 28/04/11

Ironically Alberton, as well as being the home of Port Adelaide is also a suburb of the Gold Coast. Read more »

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